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All it takes is a crawling woman in a hairy suit, a bunch of jumping men with televisions on their heads or a guy projecting his private parts onto public buildings to turn urban settings into surreal theatrical stages. Like guerilla action, performance art is a kind of “culture-jamming”, a deliberate interruption of daily life [...]

In his incessant search for inspiring design ideas, Michael gathered a collection of 21 fabulous pools in order to boost our reader’s spirits. You can take them as beautiful ideas and you can appreciate their shape and style. But what we would like you to do is keep the designs in mind and consider these [...]

You’ve probably heard of Warren Buffett and know him as president Obama’s billionaire oracle. He is also famous for his investment plans, as they all turn out to be very successful in time. For all of you designers and architects out there, here is a good news for the day. According to Buffett, “within a [...]

Sometimes the most insignificant disruption in matters of furniture can change a room for the better. In this post we would like to showcase this flexible storage system from WilliamSorel, an alternative for the classical shelving solutions. This item not only brings a plus of originality to the overall design of an interior, but it [...]

Tunelli is an Italian company founded in the mid 1980s who designs and produces furniture items in glass. We really enjoyed looking through their portfolio and our choice for you guys is this amazing contemporary collection of coffee tables. With a high regard to aesthetic effect, the company created these items in order to bring [...]

As you all know, recently there have been a few natural events that shook the world yet once again. The massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile not too long ago and the one in Haiti on January 12 left us helpless in this ongoing confrontation between man and nature. We know we can not do [...]